The Great Mystery GameFinalizing your python project!
PixelPup’s adventure has led him through puzzles, talking trees, and mysterious clues. Now, with his bag full of the feather, pawprint, and carrot, he finally stands before the towering final door. Glowing symbols on the door whisper:
“Only true coders who can combine all their powers may reveal the truth.”
PixelPup wags his tail nervously.
“All my coding powers? That means everything we’ve learned so far!”
In this last challenge, PixelPup must bring together every skill, that is printing messages, using variables, making decisions with if and else, looping through clues, organizing lists and dictionaries, and even calling functions. But this time, he won’t just solve a puzzle, he’ll create an entire game that reveals the real thief behind the missing bone!
Kids won’t just watch the story unfold; they’ll code alongside PixelPup, building their very first full Python program and solving the mystery themselves.
🐾 The Final Episode!
PixelPup wags his tail:
“Okay, coder friend! This is the big one! We’re going to use everything we learned to make a real game and solve the mystery!”
print("🐶 Welcome to PixelPup's Mystery Game!")🎉 This line says hello to the player and sets the stage. PixelPup is excited to have them join the mission!
clues = ["feather", "pawprint", "carrot"]
🧺 We put all the clues into a list — like a backpack PixelPup carries.
suspects = {"Bunny": "carrot", "Bird": "feather", "Fox": "pawprint"}🕵️♂️ This is a dictionary. Each suspect is linked to a clue.
It’s like a secret detective notebook that matches evidence to a name.
Now we are going to list the clues in order, so lets start:
for clue in clues:
print("You found a:", clue)🔄 This loop shows every clue one by one, just like PixelPup sniffing through the bag and saying:
“Look! A feather! And a pawprint! And a carrot!”
guess = input("Who do you think took the bone? Bunny, Bird, or Fox: ")💬 Now it’s your turn to be the detective! This asks the player to type in their answer and stores it in a variable called guess.
if guess in suspects:
if suspects[guess] in clues:
print("🎉 Correct! " + guess + " took the bone!")
else:
print("❌ Nope! The clues don’t match " + guess + ".")
🔍 Here’s the big moment!
Otherwise, the game says the clues don’t match and the mystery continues. 🕵️
If the guess is a real suspect and their matching clue is in PixelPup’s bag, you win! 🎉
“Look at what we just did! You built a whole game using everything — printing, lists, dictionaries, loops, input, and if/else logic!”
We are using our re-using the print super power here as well as variables. so lets go pups! So lets try that out here in the python playground below – so type your code and click on the ▶️ button when you are ready to run the command and you will see it showing up on the right side!
🧠 Can you create your own list of steps for PixelPup?
Add more suspects and clues.
Ask the player for their name and make the game greet them.
Add a function like check_guess() to organize code.
Try testing your python code on the above playground and if it works good then Love to hear it – add a comment with your code!
🎨 Bonus Activity – Build your own Maze
Draw your own Mystery Map with suspects, clues, and the final door. Label where each clue was found!
PixelPup loves fan art!! You will be able to see that on our instagram pages too
♣ You can now write professional code using python loops!
💎 Our pup gets one step closer to his missing bone ⌨️
The Friend!The Mystery Ends, A New Adventure Begins
PixelPup placed the last clue on the glowing door — the feather, the pawprint, the half-eaten carrot.
With a soft click, the door opened, revealing… Bunny holding the golden bone! 🥕
“Oh no, PixelPup!” Bunny said, ears drooping.
“I wasn’t stealing! I just wanted to polish it up for the big party.”
PixelPup wagged his tail and barked happily.
“Mystery solved! You’re not a thief — you’re a friend!” 🎉
As they laughed and shared the shiny bone, a faint hum filled the room.
A small glowing orb floated down and whispered:
“PixelPup… you’ve mastered code. Now it’s time to teach machines to learn too.”
PixelPup’s ears perked up.
“Teach machines? Can they solve mysteries too?”
The orb pulsed gently.
“Only if you learn the magic of Artificial Intelligence.”
PixelPup looked back at his coder friends:
“Are you ready for our next big quest?”
